 Bivariate cointegration of major exchange rates, cross-market efficiency and the introduction of the EuroMichael Kühl () Journal of Economics and Business, 2010, vol. 62, issue 1, pages 1-19 Abstract: The aim of this paper is to investigate whether the Euro-US dollar exchange rate cointegrates with other major exchange rates since the introduction of the Euro. In order to evaluate whether the introduction of a new currency, which has commonly replaced more and less established currencies, has generated common stochastic trends which are possibly linked to cross-inefficient markets, the results are compared with those of a cointegration analysis of the pre-Euro era. We can show that after the introduction of the Euro two cointegration relationships arise among the Euro-US dollar and the four most important exchange rates, whereas the no-arbitrage condition is satisfied. Here, we discovered a new result: free floating exchange rates are cointegrated after the introduction of the Euro. The Euro-US dollar exchange rate cointegrates with the Australian dollar-US dollar and with the British pound-US dollar. In both cases the Euro-US dollar is weakly exogenous. The results coincide with comovements of important fundamentals which imply cross-market efficiency. Keywords: Foreign exchange market; Market efficiency; Cointegration (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: http://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:jebusi:v:62:y:2010:i:1:p:1-19 Access Statistics for this article Journal of Economics and Business is edited by Kenneth J. Kopecky More articles in Journal of Economics and Business from Elsevier |
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